Innovation Week on Orange Island: Day 5

On this 5th and final day of Innovation Week, we’ll explore the importance of community-driven innovation, and address the epic issue of interoperability with some of its most prominent advocates.

We wish to extend our warmest thanks to all the wonderful people involved in making this week happen: our partners from Metanomics, speakers, moderators, audience… for sharing their passion and knowledge on highly innovative projects.

Friday October 3rd

12PM SLT – Community-driven Innovation: How ascending innovation is shaping virtual worlds

Moderator: Hydra Shaftoe
Speakers: Baba Yamamoto (LibSL), Gigs Taggart (Meerkat client), Robbie Kiama (MetaHUD) and Fire Centaur (SL Link).

Hydra Shaftoe
Hydra Shaftoe is a Second Life architect and designer, corporate events specialist, professional project manager, and all-around business wolf. He’s an expert on inworld communications & marketing, and on making products that make SL more useful and productive for users.

Baba Yamamoto
Baba (aka James Neal in RL) is an open source advocate and head of R&D at Pleiades Consulting. Active in the Second Life open source community since 2006, Mr. Neal is President and co-founder of the Open Metaverse Foundation. The OMF is a non profit organization founded with the mandate of designing and supporting open technologies that advance the Metaverse. A major step toward a fully interconnected, interoperable Metaverse is the Meerkat Viewer Project.

Robbie Kiama
Robbie Kiama became familiar with Virtual Worlds in 2005. He quickly understood that making a better use of virtual experiences is a work in progress. In 2008 he founded a Lithuanian startup called metaLIFE with few likeminded friends. MetaLIFE’s mission is to create a social platform, which connects residents across the metaverse. MetaLIFE’s aim is to create a platform which would make social interactions within virtual worlds.

Fire Centaur
Paul G. Preibisch (aka Fire Centaur in SL) is an English Teacher and a Computer Science graduate in the RL who lives in Korea. So, he naturally founded the English Village. A place where teachers and students can experiment teaching/learning in the Metaverse.
He is also the creator and developer of the Second Life Link Application. This tool merges your Second Life friends network with your Facebook account. Just go to the most popular social network and synchronize it with your SLlink account in the world’s most popular Virtual World.

1.30PM SLT – Interoperability: Where do we stand?

Moderator: Whump Linden
Speakers: Zha Ewry (IBM), G2 Proto and Robin G2 Proto (Reactiongrid), Strawberry Fride (SL.NetUserGroup + TechNetGroup).

Whump Linden
Whump Linden is one of the Gridnaughts! They travel between the SL grid and grids outside of Linden Labs. Whump works as a developer at Linden Lab, in charge of the Open Grid Public Beta. Before that he has worked as an engineer for Apple’s .Mac, a web developer in Apple’s HR division and a client engineer at 2Roam.

Zha Ewry
Zha is a 23 year employee of IBM Research. She has worked on a variety of projects at IBM including network and systems management, Intelligent Agents, Reasoning engines, highly distributed e-mail systems and reasoning and policy based systems. Zha’s current work is focused on Virtual Worlds technology, and the long term implications of broadly deployed social collaboration tools.
Zha works with Linden Lab’s Architecture Working Group, and IBM’s OpenSim team. Zha’s work includes both the technical work needed to permit interoperation between virtual worlds, and the policy and social computing aspects of the emerging immersive internet.

G2 Proto
Kyle “G”, former Aerospace Test Engineer & Advanced Electronics Technician for the US Navy, formed GSquared with his wife after success using software development and 3D to automate systems and train clients and partners worldwide. Kyle now plans to use Second Life & OpenSim virtual worlds as a business tool for data visualization, product demonstrations, team collaboration, prototyping, training & eductaion for students, employees and business.

Gigs Taggart
Jason Giglio (aka Gigs Taggart in SL) is the lead developer for the Open Metaverse Foundation’s Meerkat Viewer project. His work includes co-authoring “Loosely Coupled Virtual Worlds”, a whitepaper outlining an alternative architecture for virtual worlds.

Robin G2 Proto
RobinG2 started programming with punch cards on mainframes and has never stopped working with technology since. She soon after joined the US NAVY in 1991 and maintained the stability of nuclear weapons and critical related systems. She is currently co-founder and developer at her company GSquared where she works on virtual world development with companies like Microsoft, educational groups and school systems, as well as small to medium businesses. Her recent focus is on hosting virtual worlds like OpenSim on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 for integration with Second Life and other grids. She is an avid FPS and RTS game player and lead of the Second Life TechNet efforts.
Reaction grid’s website

Strawberry Fride
Chris Hart (aka Strawberry Fride in SL) is the leader of the ‘.NET User Group’ in Second Life, and organises and hosts regular events on Microsoft Island. Chris is a .NET developer with many years of experience working with different aspects of .NET, from ASP.NET web applications to smart client applications, Windows Services, Active Directory integration and SharePoint consultancy and customization for both public and private sector clients across many industries. Chris has authored chapters on several books on ASP.NET development and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Development. Chris recently moved away from regular .NET development to investigate working more with Second Life and OpenSim.
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